Because she was worried about Concubine Chen, after Xiao Lu and Duan Shaoyou left Yuxiu Palace, Mrs. Ding'an Hou was not in a hurry to return to the house, but sat back and continued to talk with Concubine Chen.

Concubine Chen looked at Yuxiu Palace, which seemed empty at the moment, and her heart hesitated.

It was just right for Mrs. Ding'anhou to stay, she simply grabbed Mrs. Ding'anhou and talked about Xiao Lu's bits and pieces over the years.

Xiao Lu and Duan Shao walked on the corridor in the palace and walked in the direction of the palace gate.

When he was about to walk to Yihua Palace, Xiao Xuan suddenly came out of Yihua Palace and happened to collide with Xiao Lu and his party.

"I've seen big sisters." Xiao Xuan was a little stunned when she saw Xiao Lu, but quickly she changed her expression and walked forward slowly with a smile on her face. "Big sister, did you just say hello to Concubine Chen?"

"Yes, I came with the horse to meet my mother." Xiao Lu also said with a smile on her face. "Pony, this is my youngest sister, Princess Zhaoyue."

"I've seen Her Royal Highness Princess Zhaoyue." Duan Shaoyou listened, and hurriedly turned to Xiao Xuan to salute,

"The eldest brother-in-law doesn't have to be so polite." Xiao Xuan didn't want to say anything more to Xiao Lu. "I want to come to the eldest sister and eldest brother-in-law, this is going out of the palace and back to the princess's mansion, I won't delay you, I will go to Lingyun Palace to ask my father for peace."

Xiao Lu and Xiao Xuan were in the same mood, so they didn't say anything more, and left with Duan Shaoyou.

They each turned their backs to each other and left, and after a long time had passed, the green forest that followed Xiao Xuan quietly turned his head to look at Xiao Lu and his party.

"Princess, it seems that Princess Nan'an has indeed changed her temperament." Lu Lin couldn't help but gossip with Xiao Xuan. "The slave maid looked at the good relationship between Princess Nan'an and the concubine."

"The eldest sister's concubine is the son of the prince of Zhenguo, and I heard that the knowledge is good. Looking at it today, the appearance and temperament are not bad, and the big sister should be satisfied. Xiao Xuan smiled and looked ahead, "Isn't this very good, the eldest sister's life is smoother, and the father can rest assured." ”

Xiao Xuan walked to the front of the Lingyun Palace, and met the queen coming out of the Lingyun Palace.

Seeing this, Xiao Xuan immediately lowered her eyebrows and looked at her, and took the palace maid behind her to respectfully get out of the way, and stood sideways on the side of the road.

"Zhaoyue greets the queen mother." When the queen slowly walked in front of her, Xiao Xuan bent down to salute the queen.

"It's Zhaoyue." The queen stopped in front of Xiao Xuan, turned her head and looked at her lovingly. "Come and say hello to your father, right?"

"After returning to my mother, Zhaoyue is here to ask my father for peace." Whenever Xiao Xuan was in front of the queen, she was as well-behaved as a little quail.

"Okay, I'm going back to Zhaoyang Palace." In the past few days, Zhang Luo has finally finished Xiao Lu's marriage, Xiao Lu returned to the palace today, everything went very smoothly, Duan Shaoyou coped properly in front of Emperor Chu, and the queen's mood was naturally very good. "Go and say hello to your father."

"Yes, Zhao Yue sent her mother."

Xiao Xuan entered the hall, and Emperor Chu was closing his eyes to recuperate. Wu Chuan, who personally went out to welcome Xiao Xuan into the hall, was about to call Emperor Chu, Xiao Xuan hurriedly gestured to him to silence. Wu Chuan quickly came to his senses and quietly stepped aside.

Xiao Xuan lightly lifted the hem of her skirt that dragged the ground, and walked to Emperor Chu's side step by step.

She was about to stretch out her hand towards Emperor Chu, when Emperor Chu suddenly opened his eyes and looked at her.

"Father, are you awake?" When Xiao Xuan faced Emperor Chu, she was presumptuous, she calmly withdrew her hand, sat down in the vacated position next to Emperor Chu with a smile, and asked.

"What were you going to do just now, girl?" Xiao Xuan sat beside him, Emperor Chu didn't say anything, but his body took the initiative to move a little distance to the other side, so that Xiao Xuan could sit more comfortably.

"I didn't want to do anything?"

"Okay, have you seen your eldest sister today?" Emperor Chu asked.

"I've seen it, I met my eldest sister and eldest brother-in-law on the way over." Xiao Xuan said. "I met the Queen Mother before I came in."

"Didn't you just hear you shouting the queen mother quite sweetly?" Emperor Chu said with a smile and Xiao Xuan. "Why do you call her the queen mother now?"

"Father, don't you know why? The queen doesn't like me, but in front of the queen, as a girl born of a concubine, I always have to have the deference. ”

Emperor Chu looked at Xiao Xuan and couldn't help but think of the matter that the queen had stayed in the Lingyun Palace to discuss with him after Xiao Lu left with the horse.

The queen now already knows that Duan Shaolan, the eldest son of her younger brother Duan Chengwen, will become Xiao Xuan's concubine in the future, and she knows that this matter has already passed the clear road in front of Emperor Chu, and I am afraid that there is no way to turn around properly.

She deliberately stayed today, just to ask Emperor Chu for something, so that Emperor Chu could delay for a while before giving a marriage will.

Emperor Chu knew the queen's plan in his heart, if after Xiao Lu got married, Emperor Chu immediately issued a decree to marry Xiao Xuan and Duan Shaolan. The focus will immediately shift away from Xiao Lu and Duan Shaoyou's husband and wife, the queen persuaded Emperor Chu, Xiao Xuan is still young, and Emperor Chu only has two girls under his knees, and now that Xiao Lu has just gotten married, Xiao Xuanhe should stay in the palace for a few more years.

Although Emperor Chu himself was not ready to let Xiao Xuan marry and leave the palace early, these words came out of the queen's mouth and into his ears, and it was not very comfortable to listen to.

"Xuan'er, now your eldest sister has married and left the palace." Emperor Chu favored Xiao Xuan, and on top of her marriage, his connivance with Xiao Xuan was much higher than that of Emperor Liu's concubine, and Emperor Chu would naturally personally ask Xiao Xuan's opinion on such a thing. "You're fifteen years old, have you ever thought about when you'll get married?"

"Father, I'm a daughter, when will I get married, is it useful for you to ask me?" Xiao Xuan heard about his marriage, and then he blushed in hindsight and said softly. "My parents are in charge of major marriage matters, and I am at the mercy of my father's arrangement."

"Really? But my father is now a girl by your side, and my father is reluctant to let you marry early and leave the palace, and I really want to keep you for a few more years, are you willing to do it? ”

Xiao Xuan thought about it and nodded.

"Look at your eldest sister, even if she is twenty years old before getting married, she is still very beautiful as a princess." Emperor Chu held back a smile at the corner of his mouth. "My father won't keep you until you're twenty years old, but what do you think about keeping you until eighteen before you get married?"

After listening to Emperor Chu's words, Xiao Xuan's eyes widened in surprise, as if he had been struggling inwardly for a long time before he opened his mouth with a red face and hesitation.

"Father, I know that you and your mother will definitely be reluctant to me, it doesn't hurt if I am eighteen years old, but Duan Shaolan is the same age as the sixth brother. Look at the sixth brother now that he has both children under his knees, how can he make him wait for another three years, how old will he be at that time?! Xiao Xuan said with a slight frown.

"How honored is it for him to be able to keep you as a colt, why can't he wait for you for another three years?" Emperor Chu looked at Xiao Xuan's serious expression and couldn't help but laugh.

"Father, you just make fun of me." Xiao Xuan pursed her lips.

"Okay, okay, it's my father's fault, I shouldn't have made fun of you." Emperor Chu easily stopped laughing before he said again. "All the things that happened in the palace this time and afterward, my father's way of dealing with them has wronged you. But your eldest sister also has the blood of her father, and her father really couldn't do enough to really deal with her. You are very well-behaved this time, and you have a rare general understanding, and you didn't pout and worry about her, and your father kept it in mind. You are so well-behaved and caring, my father is really reluctant to give you up. ”

"Father." On the day of Xiao Lu's wedding, Xiao Xuan's most vivid memory is the hazy tears in Concubine Chen's eyes when she watched Xiao Lu's wedding sedan car go away.

And after listening to Emperor Chu's words, she also had a trace of emotion in her heart, and involuntarily hugged Emperor Chu's arm and rested her head on Emperor Chu's shoulder with attachment.

"Father, when the day I get married, I will be very reluctant to you and my mother." Xiao Xuan said movingly. "No matter how good the princess's mansion outside the palace is, I can't see you and my mother every day."

"My little princess, I didn't expect my children to grow up overnight."

Emperor Chu recalled that when Emperor Liu's concubine gave birth to Xiao Xuan, Emperor Chu stood anxiously and paced back and forth in the garden of Yihua Palace, listening to Emperor Liu's increasingly bitter cries in the room.

I don't know how long he waited that day, and finally heard a faint baby cry.

Emperor Chu hugged the newborn Xiao Xuan for the first time, and she was born weaker than the other children under his knees. He regarded it as a treasure and had to take over the swaddling Xiao Xuan from the nurse's hand, only to feel that she was not even as long as his palm.

"I'm going to grow up." Xiao Xuan leaned on Emperor Chu's shoulder. "But no matter what age I grow up, I'm still my father's child."

In fact, Emperor Chu had other things in mind during this time. In the case of Jiangnan, the evidence brought back by Duan Shaolan and other Jinqiwei was not only enough to firmly nail the local officials involved in the case in Jiangnan, but Duan Shaolan also implicated the Yongchang Earl's Mansion by hiding the account book that he handed over.

And after the Earl's Mansion of Yongchang, there is the second prince Xiao Jin.

The prefect of Jiangnan Fucheng and others not only swallowed the interests of the imperial court, but also raised killers to kill Songchen County and Wannian County Chengmanmen, who wanted to expose the matter, and those people were indeed not a pity to die.

But the second prince, Emperor Xiao Jinchu, didn't know how to investigate for a while, or find out that he was really involved, and how to deal with him was true.

So Emperor Chu had to delay the case in Jiangnan again and again, until he waited for Xiao Lu to get married, and Emperor Chu didn't think about it.